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Cristo Alvarado

@cristoalvarado

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Senior Full Stack Developer specializing in scalable web applications and pragmatic system design.

Mexico

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What I'm looking for

I seek challenging roles building scalable, secure web platforms where I can lead architecture, improve reliability, mentor engineers, and drive CI/CD and observability practices.

I am a Senior Full Stack Developer with over eight years building scalable, customer-facing web applications using modern frontend frameworks and diverse backend technologies.

I have deep experience with React, Next.js, Vue, and server-side development in Java, Python, C#, and Node.js, and I focus on microservices, API design, database optimization, and cloud deployment.

My recent work includes shaping domain boundaries with DDD, implementing observable and secure systems on Kubernetes, and improving performance through caching, indexing, and resilient event-driven patterns.

I mentor junior engineers, author architecture decisions and documentation, and drive CI/CD, testing, and reliability practices to deliver dependable releases in agile environments.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Full Stack Developer

Nordstrom

Jan 2023 - Oct 2025 (2 years 9 months)

Led full stack development of customer-facing React/Next.js frontends and Java/Spring Boot microservices on Kubernetes, improving reliability and observability while enabling canary/blue-green releases and faster incident diagnosis.

React Next.js TypeScript Java Spring Boot Kubernetes Kafka PostgreSQL Redis

Full Stack Developer

Wavestone

Aug 2021 - Jan 2023 (1 year 5 months)

Built cloud-ready SaaS applications with React/Vue frontends and Spring Boot/Node.js services, implementing multi-tenant patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and observability to improve release velocity and service reliability.

React Vue.Js TypeScript Node Java Spring Boot MongoDB PostgreSQL CI CD

Full Stack Developer

Talan

Mar 2018 - Aug 2021 (3 years 5 months)

Delivered responsive UIs and REST services across React, Vue, Angular and backend stacks (Java, Python, C#), improved search/analytics with Elasticsearch, and supported migration from monolith to service-oriented modules.